What's a niche fediverse software you like?
from irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com to fediverse@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 16:51
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/46719699

I’m a fan of wafrn (wafrn.net), its a tumblr-like thing.

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nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip on 14 Jun 17:11 next collapse

Misskey. It’s not exactly niche, but it has a lot of cool features.

For example:

  • Drive features to reuse your image or other media.
  • Misskey games, so far only have Bubble Game and Go.
  • Groups
  • Antenna, basically subscription for any post with your set of rules.
  • Playful profile decoration, similiar to Discord/Steam.
ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 17:58 next collapse

In a better world, this (or one of its forks) would have taken off instead of Mastodon. It makes a way better case for itself by its distinct features compared to Mastodon, which is too easy to ignore (by everyday people) as Nerd-Twitter.

irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 14 Jun 18:40 collapse

Misskey (I use sharkey, a fork of it) is really good. Groups don’t federate yet iirc.

Its frontend is extremely slow though.

transebding_the_binary@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 14 Jun 20:43 next collapse

And the search is awfull.

how ever the UI is pretty

irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 14 Jun 21:28 collapse

The search doesn’t even work on my instance.
Lemmy is the only fediverse software with a good search imo.

transebding_the_binary@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 14 Jun 22:10 next collapse

lol, tbh yeah.

even on mastodon which is relatively big the search is jst bad.

irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 14 Jun 22:13 collapse

does mastodon’s search even work? Unless a post has a hashtag its near-unindexable.

poVoq@slrpnk.net on 15 Jun 07:40 collapse

Search on my Akkoma instance works reasonably well. Of course there is no central index, so it can only find what it has federated before.

Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org on 15 Jun 14:03 collapse

My experience on Mbin says that the search is pretty good. It might be skewed because I mostly search for magazines, though.

grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org on 14 Jun 22:23 collapse

I’m also on Sharkey. It’s just more fun that Mastodon. Also feels a touch more queer, in a wonderful way.

Kichae@lemmy.ca on 14 Jun 17:47 next collapse

NodeBB. It’s a fairly popular webforum, but ActivityPub support is fairly new. It’s really something else to see the Fediverse through a the lens of the old Internet.

lena@gregtech.eu on 14 Jun 20:10 collapse

codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2 and gotosocial.org

The snac2 dev made it using only openssl and curl libraries. It doesn’t even use a proper database, so it’s very lightweight.

Gotosocial is basically mastodon but easier to set up on the server and lighter on resource usage.

irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 14 Jun 20:26 collapse

I’ve heard of snac, but never knew about the database thing. What does it use? static files?

lena@gregtech.eu on 15 Jun 10:29 collapse

from my brief time hosting snac, iirc it stores data in JSON files